Engineering Design Challenge

Design for All as a Challenge for Hypermedia Engineering

Design for All is an important challenge for hypermedia engineering. We analyze this challenge and show that it is necessary to find a way of describing partially designed hypermedia documents that can then be transformed into different hypermedia applications according to user needs and call this concept “semi-documents”. We sketch similarities and differences to existing formalisms and conclu...

Probabilistic design: The future of rock engineering

A brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. The variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. However, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...

RF I-V Waveform Measurement and Engineering Systems - addressing the high power amplifier design challenge

This short paper presents an overview of the potential of RF Waveform Measurement and Engineering to support the developments of transistors, circuits and systems that rely on strong non-linear affects. To date these concepts have mainly been focused towards aiding the development of RF Power Amplifiers (RFPAs). This is because the performance of RFPAs both exploits (efficiency) and is limited ...

Tackling the Research-to-Teaching Challenge in Engineering Design Education: Making the Invisible Visible*

Translating research results into everyday teaching practice is notoriously difficult. In this paper, we focus on the growing body of research on design knowing and learning, and examine and make visible opportunities for getting this research to positively impact teaching in engineering design education. Core to the paper is the position that successful efforts to get research to impact teachi...

Academic Preparedness as a Predictor of Achievement in an Engineering Design Challenge